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Speaker 1: Crime alert, I means he grace breaking crime needs now.

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Speaker 1: Jaalen Thomas is fire from a Virginia Dollar store for theft,

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Speaker 1: then adds to another location to try and return the

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Speaker 1: stolen items for a refund. Jasmine Bennett, the daughter of

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Speaker 1: Thomas's previous manager, is working at that second store and

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Speaker 1: refuses to make the returns. Thomas leaves, but goes to

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Speaker 1: buy a handgun. Days later, Jayalen Thomas comes back, confronts

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Speaker 1: Bennett and shoots her dad.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Bennett paged her manager to warn that Thomas was

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Speaker 2: in the store on the day of the shooting, but

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Speaker 2: neither believe Thomas posed a threat of violence. When Thomas

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Speaker 2: confronted Bennett, he asked do you have a problem with me?

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Speaker 2: Before opening fire. Bennett was rushed to the hospital but

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Speaker 2: died there from her injuries. Her brother said she was

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Speaker 2: not scheduled to work that day, but had picked up

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Speaker 2: a coworker shift.

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Speaker 1: Thomas, twenty one, charged with murder. Surveillance video at a

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Speaker 1: Florida apartment complex captures a bizarre arson. Eighty four year

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Speaker 1: old Charles the Fever drives a scooter with a white

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Speaker 1: lap dog in the basket up to an unlocked car,

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Speaker 1: gets in the backseat of the car and starts a fire.

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Speaker 1: A witness follows the man as he gets back on

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Speaker 1: the scooter in Itad's home. A fever charged with arson

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Speaker 1: and has not mentioned a mode of dog Gonnet more

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Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this now the latest crime

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Speaker 1: and justice breaking knees crime onlines John Lemley.

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Speaker 3: We began in Florida, where the prosecution and defense have

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Speaker 3: made dramatically different opening remarks, setting the stage for the

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Speaker 3: first trial of its kind in American history for a

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Speaker 3: sheriff's deputy accused of failing to stop some of the

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Speaker 3: deaths at the Parkland School massacre. According to prosecutor Stephen Klinger,

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Speaker 3: six of the seventeen people who died at Marjorie Stoneman

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Speaker 3: Douglas High School five years ago might still be alive

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Speaker 3: had former Broward County Deputy Scott Peterson approached shooter Nicholas Cruz.

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Speaker 3: Clinger said that instead of going into the three story

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Speaker 3: structure during the shooting, Peterson took cover. Klinger also stated

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Speaker 3: that Peterson ignored procedures taught in police training, which instruct

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Speaker 3: officers to move toward the sound of gunfire in the

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Speaker 3: event of an active shooting, since every shot can result

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Speaker 3: in another fatality. Now to Virginia, where polie say a

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Speaker 3: gunman who opened fire following a high school graduation in

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Speaker 3: Richmond was targeting an eighteen year old graduate with whom

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Speaker 3: he had a long standing argument. For more, we turned

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Speaker 3: to Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: Following the Huguenot High School graduation ceremony on Tuesday, gunfire

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Speaker 2: outside the Altria Theater in the Virginia Capitol drove hundreds

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Speaker 2: running in fear. Killed were eighteen year old Sean Jackson

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Speaker 2: and his father, thirty six year old Lorenzo Smith. According

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Speaker 2: to police, at least twelve more people were treated for

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Speaker 2: injuries or anxiety as a result of the chaos, with

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Speaker 2: five further people being shot. Nineteen year old Amari Pollard,

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Speaker 2: the shooting suspect, knew Jackson. According to interim play polast

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Speaker 2: Chief Rick Edwards of Richmond, and the two had been

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Speaker 2: involved in a quarrel for more than a year. Chief

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Speaker 2: Edward says the nature of the dispute is still under investigation.

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Speaker 3: Colette mckeachen, Richmond's chief prosecutor, announced that Pollard was arraigned

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Speaker 3: on two counts of second degree murder. Wednesday morning, a

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Speaker 3: Florida woman has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and

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Speaker 3: killing a mother last week in front of her children,

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Speaker 3: putting an abrupt end to a long standing dispute between neighbours.

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Speaker 3: According to Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods, A G. K. Owens,

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Speaker 3: a black mother of four, was killed, and fifty eight

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Speaker 3: year old Susan Louise Lawrence, a white woman, has been

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Speaker 3: charged with manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery, and

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Speaker 3: two counts of assault in a case that has brought

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Speaker 3: Florida's disputed stand your ground statute back into the spotlight.

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Speaker 3: Authorities were under pressure to detain and punish Lawrence, who

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Speaker 3: shot and killed Owens. In a Facebook video, the sheriff

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Speaker 3: claimed that this is quote simply a killing rather than

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Speaker 3: a stand your girl situation. As a result of a

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Speaker 3: defect making particular vehicle models highly prone to theft, New

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Speaker 3: York City has joined a number of other cities suing

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Speaker 3: Hyundai and Kia as crime online Sydney Sumner tells US

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Speaker 3: New York and these other US cities have been plagued

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Speaker 3: by a social media fueled surge of auto thefts.

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Speaker 2: Popular how to videos on TikTok and other websites demonstrate

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Speaker 2: how to start the cars with just a screwdriver and

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Speaker 2: a USB court. The reason stems from some Hyundai and

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Speaker 2: Kia vehicles marketed in the US not having engine immobilizers,

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Speaker 2: a technology present on most cars since the nineteen nineties.

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Speaker 2: The standard prevents the engine from starting without the key.

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Speaker 2: According to the lawsuits submitted to the U S District

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Speaker 2: Court Southern District of New York, Hondai, Motor America and

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Speaker 2: Kia America Inc. Fell behind other automakers by not implementing

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Speaker 2: immobilizer technology.

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Speaker 3: New York City asserts that the vehicle thefts are negatively

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Speaker 3: affecting both public safety and emergency services, as well as

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Speaker 1: Aaron Fortner, twenty five, lives alone about two blocks from

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Speaker 1: his family's North Carolina home. Fortner begins acting strangely, calling

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Speaker 1: his grandparents, saying he's unsure of where he is and

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Speaker 1: someone's looking for him. Fortner's sister goes to check on

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Speaker 1: him and finds his home in disarray. His wallet, keys,

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Speaker 1: and phone other belongings are there, Several lights and an

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Speaker 1: electric blanket left on the hat Fortner wears every day.

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Speaker 1: Found lying in the driveway. Fortner now missing over a year.

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Speaker 1: If you have information on Aaron Fortner, contact North Carolina

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Speaker 1: Bureau of Investigation, Western District eight two eight three three

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Speaker 1: zero four six seven eight. For the latest crime and

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Speaker 1: justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert.

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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.